Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Larry McTigue from a 28 July 2013 spider collecting trip to the first part of Meadow Mountain Trail, north of the White Chuck River, Snohomish County, Washington. After picking up our pitfall traps from the Sloan Creek trip, we sought in vain for a good place to set some more. Giving up, Larry went hiking while I collected in a seemingly ordinary area – only to get the first state record for Dipoena malkini, though getting a full sample was hard work.

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Old road, now a trail, shown in red      (USGS, 1998)	White Chuck River        © Rod Crawford
Pugh Mountain sighted from trail          © Larry McTigue	White Chuck Mountain, passed on our way          © Larry McTigue
Trailhead sign     © Rod Crawford	Semi-productive roadside verge habitat          © Rod Crawford
Old growth western hemlock trunk      © Rod Crawford	The trail still looks like a road            © Rod Crawford
Delicious blue huckleberries       © Rod Crawford	What manner of meadow is this?         © Rod Crawford
That's no meadow, it's a vine maple thicket      © Rod Crawford	Diverse understory of the old growth grove            © Rod Crawford
Now it looks like a trail        © Rod Crawford	Alders above the vine maple          © Rod Crawford
Red huckleberries, even tastier          © Rod Crawford	Jumbo Mountain seen from Darrington         © Rod Crawford
Western hemlock foliage…          © Rod Crawford	…was a major habitat for me              © Rod Crawford
Larry's camera auto-focused on this fly as he aimed at the lake          © Larry McTigue	But Larry actually made it to Crystal Lake              © Larry McTigue
Rockpile didn't realize its promise as spider habitat  © Rod Crawford	Whitehorse Mountain seen from Darrington             © Rod Crawford
Salal didn't yield too much either      © Rod Crawford	Sun sets as we approach Arlington               © Rod Crawford

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